I buy a phone card to contact far away friends because I don’t know how to use Skype.

We prefer Blackberry to iPhone. Loyalty!

So yeah, not great. On the other hand we do have HD PVR, satellite radio, Bluetooth at home and in the car, assorted social networking accounts, oh and I kinda run this blog. We are not entirely without hope!

In fact, a lot of the time we can hide our technological ignorance and appear to the world as a regular, plugged-in young couple. In a recent venture to preserve the facade, I created a QR code for our Wifi password, printed and framed it for display in our home.

wifi is pronounced wee.fee

Ta-Da! Now when we have people over, they don’t actually have to awkwardly talk to us to get the wifi password. They just scan it with their device and viola; internet access. You see, we have eliminated the last shred of one-on-one social interactions. Now we can all spend our time together ignoring each other and playing with our phones! Bliss.

Step Two:This awesome website will automatically generate the QR code. You should check to make sure it works with you phone or device. If it’s good, download it.

Step Three:Right-click and ‘Save As’ this wifi symbol and this white background.

Step Four:
Put it all together. Go to PicMonkey.com, click “Edit Photo” and upload the white.jpg. Go to ‘Overlays’ and ‘Your Own’ to upload both the qrcode.png and the wifi.png.

Step Five:
Re-size to your liking and save the total picture to your computer.

Last Step:
Now all you have to do is develop the graphic. You can print it at home or send it away to be developed. I like Costco because it’s only 17¢ (15¢ if you pay cash! <-Canada joke). Once you have your picture, frame it and display!

49 thoughts on “How To Trick People Into Thinking You’re Tech Savvy”

Lol….love it! Now as long as your login isn’t “Linksy” and the password is “Admin” we are good ;-)
I am giggling because I am a technical idiot but thankfully I married a geek who helps me look smarter than I am :D

I kinda know what I’m doing (tech-wise) but I must be missing the point. On my iPhone I can’t scan this code directly into the password entry space. I can scan it and store it on my scanning App. but you’d have to copy and paste it over..that don’t seem worth it. Hmph?!

Well, I’m pretty sure we could narrow down your ip address and find your house just scanning for your wifi name, but you know, if someone is going to do that, they can probably hack it too. I wouldn’t be too worried…

I love this idea, I made one for my house and for my friend’s house where he can never remember it.

There is no way on iPhone, at the moment, to use this to auto login. You can do it with android and that option is on the QR Code Generator site.

FYI, you can make it say anything you want, so mine says
Welcome to ChezGeekz

Get your wifi on with [password]

Enjoy your technology!

Putting one by the front entrance and in the guest baths. Probably will make one for all my friends. Need to find some cheep frames.

Now we just need someone to make it look like a cross-stich, ahahahahahahahaha

I love this idea, but there are a lot of steps to make one of these. To make it even easier, I created this little web tool to do all the heavy lifting. Just fill out the form, click the button, and print.

This is such a great idea! We’re having our wedding at my Grandmother’s house and she does not want to un-protect her network even for the day (though she will change her password for it :P ). What a great way to make sure guests have access and can instagram it up :)

Most phones come with a barcode or QR code scanning app. If not, you can definitely download one. There are bunch out there for free so you shouldn’t have trouble finding one. Then just use the app to scan. Easy-peezy. (I don’t do Mac products so I can’t give you a specific app name to try, but you should be able to do a quick search in your app store.)